Reviews from

in the past


I live my life in smug superiority that I beat Inferno II

Hot take but I think this one is tied with evolution in terms of gameplay and level design.


Played the other 2 first...... this did not feel as good.

a physics based platformer! what a great idea! , it’s fine here but later games really nail the technique

É um jogo bom, ele tem modos divertidos e com uma variedade grande, ele é um jogo muito bom, o criador de mapas é muito bom também, mas ele é muito simples, é um jogo bem simples.

Trials HD is a game that PC gamers will recognize thanks to the amazing (yet buggy) Steam. Trials HD is very simple, but hard to master, and is a motocross physics game. The basic goal is to get from one end to the other using physics and the environment around you and also make the best time.

Trials start out with a simple tutorial to get you familiar with the controls, and they are easy but hard to master. You use the weight of your body by leaning back and forth to hit jumps just right. These jumps are crazy with huge leaps, teeter-tottering beams, and even a super hard move to master that has you jumping off the ground over large pipes. The game is a 3D/2D side scroller and the tracks are built out of junk such as wood, tires, cones, ropes you name it. There are four different difficulties to master and 3 different medals for each track. The medals are based on a time limit and these limits are fair, but there’s a catch. Yes, yes I KNOW just listen, you can retry as many times as you want, but to get the gold medal you have to be perfect or screw up within the designated limit. Some tracks have a no restart qualification and the harder tracks will let you restart over ten times for gold medal…yeah they get THAT tough. Most of the tracks you’ll be on for over an hour just mastering the tricky maneuvering while some you can just blow through.


The physics engine is spot on though since the bike feels just right and you have complete control of where it goes. Later on in the more difficult tracks, you will NEED to master the control of the bike. Throttle and weight distribution are the base elements of making your fastest time. If you just hold the throttle you’ll fall backward, and if you brake too hard you’ll fly forward.


There are also mini-games that help you with your skills such as climbing, ball rolling (which is impossible), bumpers, and just flying off your bike and seeing how far your ragdoll man can go. Most of these mini-games are fun, but a select few are just a nightmare, especially getting the gold medal. Trials HD also looks great with HDR lighting, high-res textures and the next-gen fix that you would expect out of a $15 arcade game. The money is well worth the investment thanks to the level editor which allows you to make you’re own easy or god awful track and upload it online.

There’s not much else to say about this complicated yet simple game. If you love physic games go for it, if you love racing go for it, if you love retrying a lot…go ahead.

motorcycle platforming game

The start of a new era for Trials Game, surprisingly, this game as the most creativity of all the trials game, and as a unique charm, from the helmet mechanic to the unique level design, defo the most fun I had playing the developer made level

The skill game on the other hand were a hard miss

The game also has a simple editor and no real track central, but I won't duck point for not having as advance feature as it sucxessor that improved on it

One of the first big hits of the Xbox Live Arcade. Maps were much more grounded than the later entries, for better or worse.

If you moved the rider back and forth on the bike, it looked like he was humping the handles. Middle school me thought that was the funniest thing ever.

I was at a house party once and this game was fired up. Every dude at the party migrated into this one tiny bedroom where we passed around a controller like we should have been passing around the 5/10 drunk chick that was trying to get our attention. Looking back, we all made the right choice.

platformer EXCEPT ON A MOTORCYCLE

Trials is great, but this entry still feels a little stiff, and suffers from 360-orange-and-brown sickness.

Came with the 360, spent a decent amount of time on it, but the sequel is far superior. It's a nice starting point, and the various different bikes are nice, but nothing to write home about.